Welcome to Blackpast

Welcome to BlackPast

This reference center with 8,163 posts is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

American Negro Academy Members
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American Negro Academy (1897-1924)
Sekazi Mtingwa
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Sekazi Mtingwa (1949- )
US Supreme Court
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(1980) Fullilove v. Klutznick
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B.B. King/Riley B. King (1925 -2015)

Explore Global African History

Queen Nanny as Pictured on a Jamaican Bank Note
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Queen Nanny of the Maroons (? – 1733)
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Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)
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Partido de Independiente de Color (Cuba, 1908-1912)
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The Italo-Abyssinian War (1889-1896)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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From the Slave Quarters to the Courtroom: The Story of the First African American Attorney in the United States
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Jazz in Occupied China: Black Jazzmen at the Japanese Prison Camp in Weihsien, China during World War II
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
Negro History Week, 1944 (ASALH)
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The History of Black History Month

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators

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